ANNOUNCEMENT

• Dates: 25 - 28 June, 2012
• Venue: University of Reading, Reading, UK
• Purpose: This meeting will be the third workshop of the OGC\WMO Hydrology Domain Working Group. After very succesful meetings in Ispra (2010) and Delft (2011), there are high hopes of great things from this meeting.

Related Activities

Ratings Workshop, June 20-22

• The HDWG workshop will be preceded by a Ratings and Gaugings Intensive workshop, June 20-22. Please contact Paul Sheahan if you are interested in attending.

Groundwater IE2 Breakout Session, June 28

• A combined HDWG-INSPIRE breakout session will be held on June 28: see Groundwater IE2 Breakout Session

Site Visit: Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, June 27 PM

• An afternoon tour of the facilities with talks.

HDWG Agenda

Tentative agenda for the main meeting:

	Topic	Discussants	Time
June 25	Monday: Intro, WaterML2, WaterML2 extensions
9:30	Introduction to the workshop and agenda, logistics, expectations, update from Exeter TC	Co-chairs	20 min
9:50	Welcome from the hosts	Robert Gurney	30 min
10:20	WaterML 2 updates and path forward	Pete, DaveV	30 min
10:50	WaterML 2 ratings update from the Intensive	Paul Sheahan	20 min
11:10	Break
11:40	Moving the HY_Features model towards adoption as a standard (Discussion leads: Irina, Rob)	Irina, Rob	30 min
12:10	Observed observable properties - from HY_Features perspective	Irina	20 min
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Profiling mechanisms for Observations and Measurements to support WaterML2 applications - i.e. how to describe WDTF, WMO profiles of core WMO model	Jeremy Tandy, RobA, Andrew Woolf	1 hr
14:30	WaterML 2 Part III - WaterQuality. WaterQuality IE?	Nate, DaveB, DaveV, Peter F	1hr
15:30	Break
16:30	Discussion – General Hydro Domain Working Group planning
18:00	Close
June 26	Tuesday: Forecasting IEs, operational issues and best practices
9:00	Recap WaterML 2 discussion; next steps (INSPIRE multi-value records)	Pete, DaveV	30 min
9:30	Inspire specs update, wrt - Environmental Monitoring Facilities, and O&M Guidelines	Sylvain	20 min
9:50	Operational and Vocabulary issues - Standardisation of vocab interfaces, including governance and provisioning - Versioning: feature, datasets (set of features), data models - Expose XML structured info with performance/stability	Rob and Sylvain	70 min
11:00	Break
11:30	Operational and Vocablulary issues - continued Observed Observable properties - from HY_Features perspective	Rob and Sylvain Irina	60 min
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Integration of hydrologic, terrestrial, and marine data systems: Outcomes and lessons learned from the Environmental Data Discovery and Transformation tool	Nate, Dave B	20 min
13:50	Multi-agency systems of systems: GW Data Portal and Water Quality Data Portal	Nate	20 min
14:10	Forecasting IE	John, Peter	110 min
16:00	Break
16:30	WaterML2 Best Practices Documentation and implementations. With examples from: USGS, CUAHSI, KISTERS, SWIE Additional Services: Profiles for vocabulary exchange; Methods	DaveV	90 min
18:00	Close
June 27	Wednesday: archives and catalogs, excursion
9:00	National River Flow Archive	Matt Fry	30 min
9:30	CHISP - Pilot	Lew Leinenweber	30 min
10:00	Experiences implementing linked WFS/SOS services with cataloged using CSW-ISO metadata	Dave B	30 min
10:30	Water data management and modeling in the EVOp project	EVOp project team	1 hr
11:30	Leaving Reading
12:30	Lunch at CEH
	CEH Visit (see tentative agenda attached)
June 28	Thursday: WMO, AIP-5, more data discovery tools, integration, GWIE, concluding discussion
9:00	WMO Update	Uli	30 min
9:30	AIP-5 Water SBA	Matt Austin	30 min
10:00	Hydrologic observations catalogs	Dave V	30 min
10:30	Break
11:00	Progress on SOS / WaterML2 server using the THREDDS data server and NetCDF via ncSOS	Tom	30 min
11:30	CUAHSI migration to OGC and operations	DaveV	30 min
12:00	Status of GEOWOW task to create a hydrology profile for SOS1/2 with WaterML2	Michael Utech, Stefan Fuest	30 min
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Extra time to catch up on outstanding issues	all	90 min
15:00	GW-IE2 Breakout Session Feedback	Boyan, Eric	30 min
15:30	Break
16:00	Planning discussion: where we want to be next year	Co-chairs	2 hrs
18:00	Close
June 29	Friday
9-16:00	Meeting with EVOp, EarthCube, HDWG (agenda separate)

Attendance and hotel bookings

The initial attendance list is attached. Please add to it once your plans are confirmed. For hotel booking you may connect with Chelsea Travel. The contact to make the bookings for you is: Sarah Knight, Travel Consultant, Chelsea Travel Management, Patteson Court, Nutfield Road, Redhill, RH1 4ED. Tel: +44 (0) 1737 646410 　Fax: 44 (0) 1737 646411. Email: sknight@chelseatmNOspamPlease.co.uk

So far, most bookings are at the IBIS Reading Centre.

Logistics

Meetings

The workshop will take place in the Harry Pitt Building (the seminar & conference rooms). Each room will have a projector.

Meals

Lunchs and refreshments are kindly sponsored by the University of Reading. Food will be provided by a catering service according to number of registered workshop participants. For any special dietary requirements (vegetarian, halal, gluten free, vegan) please inform Rachel and Uli Looser at r.ancliffe@readingNOspamPleaseNOspamPlease.ac.uk and Looser@bafgNOspamPleaseNOspamPlease.de not later than Wednesday 6 June 2012.

Communications

We expect to have wireless connection in the rooms. Teleconference Details - soon

Directions

Please see the attached maps of the University (showing where the meetings will be:Whiteknights, Harry Pitt Building which is building 57, D7, on the map), the bus network, and the bus stop Reading Centre location.

Bus times are here:　 http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/files/26Sept11htmls/17MFfor26Sept11.HTML. This is assuming everyone will catch the no. 17 from the centre of Reading which stops at the "Three Tuns" pub which is a minute walk from the entrance to the University. The journey takes about 15-20 mins & the bus stops to use would be Friar Street in Reading & the Three Tuns just across the road from the University entrance. Tickets are available from the bus driver. Bus fares within the simplyReading zone are: Weekly tickets at £14,00, daily passes at £4,00 and daily group passes (up to 4 people) at £8,00. You will need to pay the exact fare, as bus drivers do not carry change. Further information at http://www.reading-buses.co.uk/fares/

Getting to/from the airports: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findairport.aspx#lhr

A link to Trip Advisor on things to see in & around Reading, where to eat, etc: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g186363-Activities-Reading_Berkshire_England.html

-- IlyaZaslavsky - 09 Apr 2012

• WML2-Performance.ppt: KISTERS-NRCAN WaterML2 performance testing

• KISTERS-NRCAN-WML2-Performance-Testing.ppt: KISTERS-NRCAN-WML2-Performance-Testing.ppt

• KISTERS-Hydrology-Profile-For-SOS-and-WML2.ppt: KISTERS-Hydrology-Profile-For-SOS-and-WML2.ppt